About Journey to Justice

Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., runs Journey to Justice, a blog that explores the intersection of justice and culture in this place we call the United States​. His work has helped put four Klansmen behind bars, including the assassin of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and the man who orchestrated the Klan's 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. His latest stories have helped lead to the arrest of serial killer suspect Felix Vail — the last known person seen with three women. Mitchell, a 2009 MacArthur fellow, is writing a book on cold cases from the civil rights era.

Recent Posts

Fifty years ago today, the Beatles invaded America, introducing the children of the South to the African-American music already emanating from our land.
This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary o February 7th, 2014

Twenty years ago today, a jury convicted Ku Klux Klan leader Byron De La Beckwith of the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers.
Beckwith's conviction on Feb. 5, 1994, marked the first of a wave of repros February 5th, 2014

The scourge of heroin that plagued America in the 1970s has begun to return, but for an odd reason — the drug is a cheap substitute for prescription painkillers that many are already addicted to.
February 3rd, 2014

When the Medgar Evers family asks you to do something, it's hard to say no.
Medgar Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers, and her daughter, Reena, invited me to go with them Friday to visit the set of the January 24th, 2014

Thousands of Americans are behind bars, convicted of shaking babies to death — and some experts now say the science that put them there is blurry.
Since 2000, at least 11 Mississippians have January 24th, 2014

A half century after the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Birmingham church, killing four girls in September 1963, those girls were honored posthumously with a Congressional Gold Medal.
With the 50th annivers January 6th, 2014

The first wife of serial killer suspect and Mississippi native Felix Vail never signed the $50,000 life insurance policy he took out on her four months before she died in Lake Charles, La., in 196 December 31st, 2013

Mississippi native and serial killer suspect Felix Vail held onto more than a dozen earrings and other assorted women’s jewelry in his home in Canyon Lake, Texas.
Are these items that women l December 30th, 2013

Last Saturday, there was no party for Annette Vail. No candles. No cake. No birthday wishes.
Only the memories of her mother, Mary Rose, whose daughter disappeared in 1984 and is presumed dead. December 18th, 2013

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The intersection of justice and culture in this place we call the United States.